bordel

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English

Etymology

From Middle English bordel, from Old French bordel (“brothel”). Doublet of bordello.

Noun

bordel (plural bordels)

  1. (now rare) A brothel.
    • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 470:
      Appropriately enough she had given him a rendezvous (for the marriage) at the old Sphinx, opposite the Gare Montparnasse, where the respectable exterior – a family café, where families up from the country came to eat an ice and wat for their train – masked a charming bordel with a high gallery and several spotless cubicles.

Anagrams

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from French bordel (“brothel”).

Pronunciation

Noun

bordel m inan

  1. (vulgar) brothel, whorehouse
    Synonym: nevěstinec
  2. (slang) fuck-up (big mistake)
  3. (vulgar) mess (disagreeable mixture or confusion of things)
    Synonym: nepořádek

Declension

Declension of bordel (hard masculine inanimate)
singular plural
nominative bordel bordely
genitive bordelu bordelů
dative bordelu bordelům
accusative bordel bordely
vocative bordele bordely
locative bordelu bordelech
instrumental bordelem bordely

Derived terms

Further reading

  • bordel in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • bordel in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
  • bordel in Internetová jazyková příručka

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French bordel (“brothel”).

Pronunciation

Noun

bordel n (singular definite bordellet, plural indefinite bordeller)

  1. bordello, brothel, whorehouse

Inflection

Declension of bordel
neuter
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative bordel bordellet bordeller bordellerne
genitive bordels bordellets bordellers bordellernes

Synonyms

Further reading

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French bordel, from Old French bordel, from Medieval Latin bordellum (“brothel, small hut”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɔʁ.dɛl/
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Noun

bordel m (plural bordels)

  1. (informal) brothel
    Synonym: maison close
    • 1958, Georges Brassens (lyrics and music), “Le Pornographe”:
      S’il vous plaît de chanter les fleurs / Qu’elles poussent au moins rue Blondel / Dans un bordel
      If you like to sing about flowers / At least let them be ones that grow on Rue Blondel / In a brothel
  2. (colloquial) bloody mess (UK), goddamn mess (especially US)
    Synonym: bazar
    C’est quoi ce bordel ? ― What the hell's this mess?

Interjection

bordel

  1. (vulgar, slang) bloody hell! (UK), Christ almighty!

Derived terms

Descendants

Further reading

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French bordel (“brothel”).

Pronunciation

 
 

  • Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɛl, (Brazil) -ɛw
  • Hyphenation: bor‧del

Noun

bordel m (plural bordéis)

  1. brothel

References

  1. ^ “bordel” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French bordel.

Noun

bordel n (plural bordeluri)

  1. bordello, brothel

Declension

Declension of bordel
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) bordel bordelul (niște) bordeluri bordelurile
genitive/dative (unui) bordel bordelului (unor) bordeluri bordelurilor
vocative bordelule bordelurilor

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from French bordel (“brothel”).

Noun

bòrdel m (Cyrillic spelling бо̀рдел)

  1. brothel

Declension

Declension of bordel
singular plural
nominative bòrdel bordeli
genitive bordèla bordela
dative bordelu bordelima
accusative bordel bordele
vocative bordele bordeli
locative bordelu bordelima
instrumental bordelom bordelima

Slovak

Pronunciation

Noun

bordel m inan (genitive singular bordelu, nominative plural bordely, genitive plural bordelov)

  1. brothel

Declension

Declension of bordel
singular plural
nominative bordel bordely
genitive bordelu bordelov
dative bordelu bordelom
accusative bordel bordely
locative bordeli bordeloch
instrumental bordelom bordelmi

Further reading

  • “bordel”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
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